We can't talk. We can'ttalk now. Now,like the living, we aredead in Juarez unsolved as the gravestreets that turned usindoors until, hiddeninside, the hiding endedwith the blood we were.

It seems a mistake, falseinformation, a confusionof something; they could not wantanyone like us. Who can seewhy they might  they didnot know our hands as we leftthem, dark and plain, besidebullet holes in a wall.

What is this smell in the air?Where is the worldwhere the world is?Why is this? We can'ttalk now.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Armed men stormed a party in this violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses said they thought was an attack prompted by false information.

About two dozen teens and young adults were hospitalized after the late Saturday assault in Ciudad Juarez, a drug cartel-plagued city which is one of the deadliest in the world.

Grieving witnesses and family members told The Associated Press on Sunday they thought the victims, mostly residents of the housing complex where the attack occurred, had no ties to drug traffickers.

The attack on a party attended by mostly high school and college students has 'no apparent motive,' the mayor says. The death toll rises to 16.

Reporting from Mexico City - Authorities in Ciudad Juarez said Monday that they have no idea what motivated a weekend shooting attack against a group of young partygoers that killed at least 16 people in the border city.

The death toll rose from 14 after two more victims died Monday from wounds suffered during the assault, in which gunmen in seven vehicles sealed off the street and opened fire on a party packed with teenagers. More than a dozen people were wounded during the attack around midnight Saturday.

The majority of the dead were under 20, and most were high school or college students.

Thank you so much Lili It's such a sad situation - the kind where I could feel the writing rising up inside as I learned about what'd happened. It means a lot to me that you enjoyed it as much as you did. Thanks for reading my friend and for the as well.

Thank you Candace - I can't begin to tell you how much I value the time you share with me in reading and commenting. The fate of Juarez is an incredibly sad and frightening one and, living as close to it as you do - it must be rough to have lost such a place and its memories because of all the violence there...

I love your poem Show por los Americanos! A for sure as it tells the hard story of real suffering with it's teeth bared - dazzling white, but sharp and keen to bite!

The way you worded this aids in expressing the senseless futility of what you're describing. Especially in the second stanza.

It seems a mistake, falseinformation, a confusionof something; they could not wantanyone like us. Who can seewhy they might – they didnot know our hands as we leftthem, dark and plain, besidebullet holes in a wall.

A powerful poem but I wonder if it couldn't have had more power in it. The ending seems a little iffy to me. However I do love that line in the second stanza. "Who can see why they might – they did not know our hands as we left them, dark and plain, beside bullet holes in a wall."

You're so right - I've noticed that I do tend to be drawn to writing material that considers the lives and conditions of others. I think the experience of looking at people critically but with empathy is one way to know yourself better, to see what life is by opening yourself up to the touch of others lives.

Sensitive topic for me, it's my country, and justice will never be done.

The repetition of the first phrase (We can't talk) in the first two verses was the perfect start for this poem. It evokes the feeling of disatisfaction and anger that has been left upon the witnesses of these kind of crimes. It is true this things happen everyday, and it's certainly this kind of silence expressed in the poem that has envolved the entire country the last years (decades?).